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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Is it possible to extend a extended partition raw space in harddisk thru rhel 6 Post 302777841 by lupin..the..3rd on Friday 8th of March 2013 12:51:36 PM
Old 03-08-2013
This is why LVM is useful. LVM doesn't care about contiguous space. To LVM, any block device space is usable space, doesn't matter where it is.

But I'm assuming you aren't running LVM. In order to give a more detailed answer, need to know what sort of partition table youre using (MSDOS?) and what type of partitions (primary or extended) each one is.

Typically it's no big deal to extend the partition, then grow the filesystem into the new space.
 

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PVCK(8) 						      System Manager's Manual							   PVCK(8)

NAME
pvck - check physical volume metadata SYNOPSIS
pvck [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [--labelsector] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...] DESCRIPTION
pvck checks physical volume LVM metadata for consistency. OPTIONS
See lvm for common options. --labelsector sector By default, 4 sectors of PhysicalVolume are scanned for an LVM label, starting at sector 0. This parameter allows you to specify a different starting sector for the scan and is useful for recovery situations. For example, suppose the partition table is corrupted or lost on /dev/sda, but you suspect there was an LVM partition at approximately 100 MB. This area of the disk may be scanned by using the --labelsector parameter with a value of 204800 (100 * 1024 * 1024 / 512 = 204800): pvck --labelsector 204800 /dev/sda Note that a script can be used with --labelsector to automate the process of finding LVM labels. SEE ALSO
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), pvscan(8) vgck(8) Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) PVCK(8)
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